1957-United States Senate|U.S. Senator-Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

1963-March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom-The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his ''I Have a Dream'' speech

1963-Career Girls Murders|Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie-are murdered in their Upper East Side|Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda warning|Miranda Rights.

1998-Pakistan-s National Assembly of Pakistan|National Assembly passes a Constitution of Pakistan|constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate of Pakistan|Senate.

1998-Second Congo War-Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the Rally for Congolese Democracy|RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

2003-An 2003 London blackout|electricity blackout-cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.